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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I thank the Taoiseach. It has been 15 years since the crash. Until 2021, many of these workers had not even received a pay increase. The staffing community of voluntary organisations who are awarded the pay increase of 8% have not received it and have not been paid to date. That is outrageous. Why has it not been paid and when will it be paid? This needs to happen urgently. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I will undertake to engage with my Government colleagues. As she has rightly indicated, this cuts across a number of Departments. Many of the organisations fall within the Department of children. I have outlined on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, that Tusla has made payments. Some fall within the Department of Health or the health agency family. Some are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I did not accuse the Taoiseach of not doing anything. He failed to regulate-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy should please let the Taoiseach respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I also went further. Elections sometimes interrupt people's tenure of service but in 2019 I also brought about regulations to designate the professions of counsellor and psychotherapist under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act. I established the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board. I appointed its members in February 2019 and they held their first meeting in May...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: I agree with the last two speakers on the documentary last night on the O'Shea report but I want to raise the following issue. Earlier this month, we learned that health and social care staff with community and voluntary bodies are still awaiting pay increases agreed last October. I am referring to section 10, section 39 and section 56 workers. There was an agreement for an 8% pay increase...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins. I appreciate the passion with which she discussed the issue. I just do not believe phrases like "treating them like dirt" add much to the debate, though. That is the Deputy's view.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Joan Collins: It is their view.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: It is the Deputy's view and their view. Here is my view: this Government, which I am proud to lead, very much respects and values the work carried out by these workers. The Deputy is right that there are many aspects of our public services, including health and social services, that rely on people who have been traditionally outside the public sector. We are the better for it as a country....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's time is up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: Marie O'Shea has said courage is needed. Will the Taoiseach use his famous slogan about new energy to implement a review immediately?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy. I accept the sincerity of her view. Whether people agree or disagree with her view, it is well known in this House. We should not engage in revisionism. An awful lot has happened. We had a constitutional ban on abortion. We had the eighth amendment. This House was not empowered to legislate at all. We all went out, across party lines, and campaigned. It is kind of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not think it is fair to frame the history of what happened to the Bill as there somehow being a minority voting for it. Only approximately nine Deputies abstained that day. There was not a huge number of Deputies abstaining. I want to pick up on a few things the Taoiseach said. The 28-day limit is really the crucial thing in terms of how fatal foetal anomalies are treated and in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's time is up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: I repeat my contention that the Government is sitting on its hands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy for repeating her contention. Obviously, I do not agree with her. Even the three-day wait period has seen clarification on how it operates since the Covid pandemic. That used to involve two in-person visits but that is now not the case. That was something that came about during Covid that was deemed to work clinically well in the health service and was therefore...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I, too, pay tribute to those who spoke out. As the Deputy correctly said, I was very influenced and informed in my own views. I am also very conscious, as the Deputy said, that they played a much larger role than any politician in this House, most particularly myself, in bringing about a successful "Yes" vote because they spoke to the people of Ireland and the people of Ireland responded...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: On the Taoiseach's first day of Leaders' Questions, it is quite a coincidence that he is being questioned by both the previous speaker and me on the abortion legislation. Last night's programme exposed the ongoing denial of abortion rights to a significant number of women in this country six years after repeal. It was interesting that it opened with a clip of the Taoiseach in Dublin Castle...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I will specifically answer those three questions, but I am conscious that people follow these debates and discussions at home and in the time available to me I want to say a few things. First, six years ago abortion was constitutionally banned in this country, so a lot has changed. We had a referendum, the result of which was decisive. Since then we have steered legislation through this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

(Interruptions).